DREAMS IN ANTARCTIC At a council meeting of the Royal Geographical .Society on Tuesday (says "'Lloyd's Weekly News" o£ January 18) it was resolved to vote the sum of £1000 towards the Imperial Trans Antarctic expedition under the leadership of Sir lirnest Shacklcton. Sir Ernest is being deluged with let tors. They come from "all sorts and conditons of men"-people who wish to join the expedition, subscribers to the fund, scientists with advice that, being founded on real knowledge, is likely to be useful, and amateur scientists who no doubt mean well, but who know nothing of Antarctic conditions. "The volunteers," said Sir Ernest, on Tuesday, "now number 1500. They in clude members of all walk of life-po licemen, omnibus drivers, and doctors of science. To-day's post has brought us subscriptions of sums from 2/6 up wards, "On our last southern journey the favorite books were Browning's Poems, Borrow's Bible in Spain, Arthur Young's 'Travels in Prance,' and Shakespeare's comedies. An ...

HAQENBECK ZOO ANIMALS IN LONDON .Since the publication, Home four years a,'o, of an English translation of Carl Hagcnbeck's "Thleren \ind Menschen" (says "The Spectator") so much has been written of the Hagenbeck methods of exhibiting wild animals, and .so many contrasts have been drawn between Zoos with and without cages, that there will no doubt be a large number of visitors attracted to Olympia. to see for themselves the Hagenbeck collection of animals now on view in that much-en during building. A certain proportion, perhaps, will finish their visit with .somewhat mixed feelings. That will particularly be the case with those who know best the conditions under which animals are shown to the public in He gent's Park. For in bringing the "Wonder Zoo" to London, and in put ting forward the many claims for if with which advertisement lias made us familiar, what the proprietors have really done is to challenge a close com parison with the methods of the Lon don Zoological Gardcnr, and...

THE ! Lismore, Derrinain? and ; Crcssy Advertiser. ! PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. Printed and I'UMI.'.HED by HUBERT ALFRED ADAMS. wAv proprietor, at (IN.- olfi&amp;lt;:&amp;lt;; of LLIO " LIHINORC ADVERIII'I'r," LLIV:!) Str(;&amp;lt;;L. LIIITNORC. HI the StM&amp;lt;! of Victoria. HODIIJCRED at TIN; Gcnt-r.*;! I'ont OFLICE, MELLIOUNU', for lran:IMIM:;ion MI U NCWUPRIPCR. WEDNESDAY, MAR. 25, 1014. The Rule of Ideas. In past ages the world's chief attention centered around mon archs of the realm. To-day we are more concerned with steel kings, oil kings, wheat and cattle kings, and money kings generally than with kings who wear crowns on their brows on certain state occasions. The self made kings wield more genuine power than mere hereditary monarchs, and it is to be feared, misuse it with fewer scruples. But another reign is commenc ing-the reign of thought kings, who possess not the aristocracy of birth, but of brains. Ideas rule the world. In fact, they always have rule...

WIZARD OF MENTONE (By G. Valentine Williams In " The Daily Mall.") Every mcning without fail about 8 o'clock he coshes over from Bordighera, which lioa like a white, tapering Anger stretched out into the sparkling Medi terranean. He ia always a trifle flush ed, for he comes in a tremendous hurry knowing that he has a hard day's work before him. Until 4 o'clock or there abouts he stays in Mentone, revealing with his magic wand a myriad marvel lous beauties of -which before his com ing we had no knowledge; then, with a. delicate blush and slowly, for he is very tired, he slips away behind the darkling slopes of Cap Martin to west ward, and winter, which his presence banishes, steals over Mentone once more, Monte Carlo, round a coupie of pro montories Jo the west, has its rjasino and its elegants and enegantes, its opera with its world-famous singers, its theatre with great Parisian artists "dans leurs creations." Here in Men tone at present we have only one great artist that counts, a...

FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. THE TANGO DANGER. VVc hope this tango craze docs not attack our wife. Young Mrs. Goibsa Golde, the aged banker's third help mate, has fallen a victim to it. Wit ness the story culled by our reporter. Our reporter tangoes, it seems, right smart, and at the recent house wanning of George Mif/.lor's new Pal ace Motel, Pen 11 and Mrs. Gobsa Golde did the tango so well that they were tiie cynosure of all eyes. At midnight old Gobsa told his wife gruffly that it was time to go. Tho young lady nodded, went quietly to the cloakroom, took her husband's hat and threw it in the stove. Then she returned, and said that just as BOOH as Gobsa had got his hat and coat and ordered the carriage around, she would be ready to depart with him. She had seven more dances with young Penn before the trouble was settled 'by landlord George lending Banker Golde a cap. Yes, we hope the tango craze does not attack our good wife-Clnnamin son "Scimitar."

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A LOST NIGHTSHIRT. Some years ago (says a reader) I WEB employed as "general" la Scot land. We were having exceedingly cold weather, so com indeed, that every night I carried my bed from .my bedroom to the kitchen floor, it being much warmer there. I had just retired, about midnight, one night, feeling rather tired after a long day's work, when clang, clang, clang! went imy master's and mis tress's (bedroom bell. Now, I had just begun to feel warm, and as the hour was so late, I did not intend to an swer it; 'but in a few seconds, clang, clang, clang! went that bell again. I hastily rose, and slipped on a skirt, threw a shawl round my shoulderB, and opened the kitchen door. My mistress, who -was standing up stairs on the landing, called down: "Annie, where did you put Mr. A'fl. nightshirt?" "Isn't it under the pillow?" i asked. Then Mr. A. roared: "No; and you'd better come and find it!" Upstairs I went and searched every where, but all in vain, and wasn't Mr. A. cross, and didn't h...

THE NEW ZEALANDEJt. The; Now 55ealander is a puritan of the original stock, and he possesses most, ol' the virtues of puritanism a/id all its self-complacency. He doesn't denounce the Arts, but secretly lie deplores them; though he doesn't ob ject to an Art Gallery, for that is ' somehow a thing every up-to-date city is expected Lo have, along with a sew age system and a destructor. The New Zealander is strictly moral ac cording to the 7o!) Commandments is sued by the Chamber of Commerce, and he alao remembers a few ot' those ho learned at Sunday-school, lie is pre-eminently a business man, and never puts his damaged goods in the window. When he feels that his vir tue is burgeoning tbeyorid his capac ity to retain it he goes to Sydney for ka fortnight; then lie comes back and tells his friends how thoroughly shocked lie was at the goings-on over there-though proba/bly his greatest adventure has been an indefinite ap pointment with a peroxided barmaid who has a husband and three chil...

GIRL'S INFATUATION A remarkable story of a .schoolgirl s infatuation for a music hall artist, for whom she saerillcod her h&amp;lr, W!lij told at tho Central Criminal Court (says "The Dally Express" of Janu ary 10), when Frank Uarwood, aged 39, was inflicted on a charge of having unlawfully taken a girl named Nellie Dunn, under the age of 10 years, out of the possession of Charles Herod t punn, her father. Harwood pleaded not guilty. , Mr. Travers Humphreys, who pio Heeuted, stated that Harwood was a married man, and the girl would he 15 years old on February 20. "She lived with her parents^ at Streatham," he added, "and in Sep tember. 1912, when she was 13 Ms years old and attending Streatham Modem College, Harwood got into conversa tion with her and some other girls outside the school. He seemed to take a fancy to Nellie Dunn, and asked her to meet, hlrn that evening near Streatham Common, She agreed, but did not keep the appointment. "A few days later she found him waiting fo...

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT ! ! ? li 31 Autumn is M:; Winter is COMING., OF THE BIG STORE, LISMORE, Thank the Residents ' of Lismore and district for the generous patronage accorded them during the past season, and desire to announce that they have made the most comprehensive preparations for the coming season. 11 31 OUR NEY/ STOCK Has been carefully bought by Mr J. Bustard, and includes all the latest and best in AUTUMN AND WINTER DRAPERY. We draw special attention to our splendid range of Dress ? Stuffs, Ladies'Coats and Golfers, Furs, Underwear, Boots and Shoes, Headwear, and in fact every new and fashionable essential dear to the heart of feminine humanity. Ours is the finest and largest assortment of Flannels and Flannelettes, Blankets, Quilts and Rugs that has .ever been seen in this district. Hosiery is one of our special features. For example, our 1/3 Gents' All-wool Sox is absolutely the best value ever offered. ' We Stock everything retired for Men's Winter Wear. " Get one of our...

"MAN WANTS BUT LITTLE HERE BELOW." Man wants 'but- little-that is true. A little heiress bride will do; A little house-or maybe two In church a Little cushioned pew. A little cottage at the shore Newport would do-I'd not ask more. A. little mountain- shooting lodge, little health to doctors dodge, A. little ocean trip each year To Europe or to some place near; A little yacht to places reach In Avintei-time-like, say, Palm Beach. A little box to opera hear, A lot of littlejewels clear; A little racing car, I ween, And just one tiny limousine. Oh, yes, indeed! Quite well I know "Man wants.'.tout little here below." -"Judge," New York.

NEW SURGERY ASTONISHING KESUI/1'S CLAIMED The excitement created among doctors by the radium treatment of cancer (says the "Central News") will probab ly be overshadowed at an early date by the announcement to the medical profession o£ an astonishing operation now being performed at Guy's Hospital, which in the near future is bound to re volutionise the whole practice of opera tive surgery. The operation so far has been ap plied to cases of certain forms of tu berculosis, and so successful has it proved that it has now been accepted at Guy's as the correct treatment for this disease. The principle of the treatment, the "Central News" was informed by an eminent surgeon, is the removal of the cause of the disease. For long it has been recognised that the excessive mul tiplication of noxious bacteria in the larger intestine and the inability of the body to eliminate them was the pre disposing cause of many diseases. The Metchnikoff sour milk treatment, which purported to purify this or...

THE GRAND OLD DAYS. Mr. Sainsbury, Chief Commissioner of Police in Victoria, says that the old pushes like (lie Flying Angels, the Crutchies, the Emus and the White Roses, have now quite disappeared. The good ole oays are gorn, And us as played the game is left for lorn. There was a time when Crutchies and White Roses Would bash cacli other's jaws an' break their noses; When shickcred blokes that staggered 'ome at night Would meet us, an' be left for dead all right; When 'bobbies who annoyed us on the .beat Would be 'arf-kicked to rags in every street, Their 'elmeLs 'broken a/i' their trous ers torn, But them ole days are gorn. The grand ole days are gorn, And modern 'blokes is only things of scorn. One night there was when every Bou varoo Was wild to hand out stoush to Doclc ' ey Drew. He was the Flyin' Angels very 'best, And so we put the boot into his chest, And eight of us were lum'bered when he died, But all acquitted when the case was tried. My gosh, the lies they 'eard when w...

BEWARE THE AVALANCHE SOME PERILS OF WINTE1 SPORTS. So many people go lu the A iis c y winter, and the proportion ol bcuoua accidents is apparently so -small, ? > the novice undertakes lu.s winte lu'1' day in far too light-hearted a laslnon Let him (says a special corresponded in "The Daily Express ), howe\u, t . to insure himself against ^ accidents, and he will '{"V.cm refuse pany after company will eitlici iUUm. or quote prohibitive rates. r(liir.c_ This brings matter for ! lion. The apparently small of accidents is explained in Ninety out of every hundred * Ihlt°^ to Switzerland in winter scaiceb out of sight of the hotel. Ihey spoil J much time on prafitlco^lijpes, m'uc time in dancing and picniclkl"*; ^ that all the accidents that In ipi. must he put down to the debit of the ten per cent, who do more seilous " The danger point Ik reached w!l'^n the novice becomes a lilt e more am bitious. ife looks ii|>on the Alps &amp;lt;ih a playground,forgettingthatthey a playgroun...

SOCIALISM OPPOSED Mr Vincent Astor, ' "America's rich est young- man," publishes a dignified reply to the open letter in which Mr Upton Sinclair urged him to devote his many millions to the advancing of the cause of Socialism (says "The Times.") The argument used by the author of "The Junge" was that there are 10,000.000 of destitute people in the country to-day, and that Socialism pro vides the only means of relieving their sufferings. To this Mr Vincent Astor retorts that he is "fortunately" asso ciated with many organisations inter ested in sociological questions, and that in his studies he has had the benefit of the experience and advice of the lead ing officers of the American Federation of Labor and the chiefs of the Railway Brotherhoods. He asserts that not one man entitled to speak for the working classes whom he . has met ' regards Socialism as a c«re for the evils which we all recognise an:5 deplore." Mr Vincent Astor begs Mr Sinclair to .accept .from him copies of the "Am...